Photographer and media artist Anna Fabricius has been researching the changing cultural and personality-shaping role of work for many years. In this exhibition, she explores the increasingly common transnational family relationships that are the result of the global division of labour.
Over the past year, she has worked with workers from the Far East employed in agriculture or manufacturing. The works they have created together are not documentary representations, but rather situations created for the sake of video and photography, demonstrating the personal experience of inclusion, acceptance, feeling of absence, familial love and responsibility.
The organising force behind the exhibition is ‘invisibility’. Guest workers are invisible to the majority of society and also their contribution to our common well-being, as well as hidden forms of caring for each other and their loved ones.